Exhibition “Turns and Affections, Brazilian Art 1983-1995”

Nara Roesler São Paulo is pleased to present the exhibition “Spins and Affections, Brazilian Art 1983-1995”, with 39 works by 18 great artists, created during this period. They are works in different sizes, techniques and research, in paintings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures and embroidery, which show that “between turns and affections, even though sharing the same historical moment, and, although apparently similar, the artists and their works are unique and unrepeatable, and each of them inaugurates a specific temporality”, as stated by Luis Pérez-Oramas and the curatorial team at Nara Roesler, who organized the exhibition.

The artists with works in the exhibition are: Amelia Toledo (1926), Angelo Venosa (1954-2022), Antonio Dias (1944-2018), Carlito Carvalhosa (1961-2021), Carlos Zílio (1944), Cristina Canale (1961), Daniel Senise (1955), Fabio Miguez (1962), José Cláudio (1932-2023), Karin Lambrecht (1957), Leda Catunda (1961), Leonilson (1957-1993), Marcos Chaves (1961), Mira Schendel (1919-1988), Paulo Bruscky (1949), Sérgio Sister (1948), Tomie Ohtake (1913-2015) and Vik Muniz (1961).

“In its illusory attempt to become scientific, the history of art forgets that for centuries its achievements were regulated, explained and sustained by a theory of affects, also called the theory of passions,” the curators comment. “A work of art is a work of affect, precisely insofar as the aesthetic value that affects us is only experienced as reception. This subjective dimension of affect means that, strictly speaking, each work of art belongs to a unique and unrepeatable temporality, beyond the time that we all share,” they continue. “More recently, the physics of fields (electromagnetic, gravitational) shows that reality in its most elementary dimension exists as a relation, and depends on probability models that regulate orbital jumps and nuclear spins. An exclusion principle for some particles (fermions) holds that particles that are identical in the way they spin cannot share the same quantum state. The elementary fields of reality are systems of fusion and fission, coupling and distance, entanglement and uncertainty for which the ancient theory of affects can serve as a metaphor.”

For Luis Pérez-Oramas and the curatorial team at Nara Roesler, in the specific temporality inaugurated by the artists and their works, “exclusion and affection, memory and mind are combined”. “Giros e Afetos, Arte Brasileira 1983-1995” determines “a parenthesis for approximations and distancing”, they propose.

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Exhibition | Spins and Affections, Brazilian Art 1983-1995
From October 31th to January 24th
Monday to Friday from 10:19 to 11:15, Saturday from XNUMX:XNUMX to XNUMX:XNUMX